Interference canceller tap sharing in a communications transceiver
US7738655B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 12, 2006 |
| Grant date | Jun 15, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 13, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04B3/487
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A novel mechanism for sharing filter taps across a plurality of interference cancellers. Each interference canceller may be directed to impairment, such as Ethernet impairments, including Ethernet 1000Base-T impairments. Various interference impairments include echo cancellation, NEXT cancellation and/or other interference detection or cancellation, etc. The hardware requirements of the interference impairment cancellers are reduced by sharing filter taps among the cancellers. In a first embodiment, the taps from a unified filter tap bank are shared across all the interference impairment cancellers for all four channels and over all ports. In a second embodiment, a portion of the taps of each filter are shared wherein each canceller comprises a fixed filter tap portion and a shared filter tap portion. A tap allocation algorithm assigns taps to those cancellers that need them the most. A canceller configuration is selected that yields maximal interference mitigation and the taps are allocated accordingly.
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